Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Toe-suck daze

Too rich to be ignored is this Washington Post item on how a D.C. prostitution scandal potentially involving the toe-sucking Dick Morris could derail an anti-Hillary movie planned by the wormy Morris and right-wing hitman David Bossie. Hey, a thought. Maybe, if Tim Griffin moves on soon enough, he could put in a call to Morris to join the movie production. He's had some relevant experience in hard-hitting political spin.

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Attorney General Leslie Rutledge went to court late yesterday to get the state Supreme Court to halt mediation ordered by Circuit Judge Tim Fox in the case over issuing birth certificates to same-sex parents.

I always scan the Little Rock City Board for items of interest this week and this one caught my eye: A zoning measure required by a proposal to tear down the IHOP at Markham and University.

The Little Rock City Board illustrated this week a community divided over public schools, another blow to the Little Rock School District and another illustration of the need for ward elections to the board.

A series of speakers, beginning with Sen. Joyce Elliott, denounced what they saw as a hidden agenda favoring charter schools at the state Department of Education and asked the state Board of Education for return of local control.

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One of the booths at this week's Ark-La-Tex Medical Cannabis Expo was hosted by the Arkansas Hemp Association, a trade group founded to promote and expand non-intoxicating industrial hemp as an agricultural crop in the state. AHA Vice President Jeremy Fisher said the first licenses to grow experimental plots of hemp in the state should be issued by the Arkansas State Plant Board next spring.

Two Little Rock police recruits were fired last week after a controversy over a past Facebook post that used a racial slur.

An update to criticism of President Trump's terrible judicial appointments: Even Trump's team realized what a poor choice Alabama lawyer Brett Talley was for the federal bench in Alabama. His nomination has been withdrawn, NPR has reported: